Malleable Map - Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912

Kären Wigen explores regional cartography, choreography, and stagecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. As developed here, that term designates not the quick coup détat of 1868 but a three-centuries-long project of rehabilitating an ancient map for modern purposes. Drawing on a wide range of geographical documents from Shinano (present-day Nagano Prefecture), Wigen argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600 - 1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868 - 1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform. Nor were they alone; provincial men of letters played an equally critical role in bringing imperial geography back to life in the countryside. To substantiate these claims, Wigen traces the continuing career of the classical courts most important unit of governance - the province - in central Honshu.

Sommario

Contents
List of Illustrations
Conventions Followed in the Text
Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. A Province Defined

1. Shinano in the Nation
2. Shinano Up Close
3. Shinano in the World

Part Two. A Province Restored

4. The Poetry of Statistics
5. Pedagogies of Place
6. A Pan-Provincial Press

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Kären Wigen is Professor of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Making of a Japanese Periphery and co-author of The Myth of Continents: A Critique of Metageography, both from UC Press.

Riassunto

Probes regional cartography, choerography, and statecraft to redefine restoration (ishin) in modern Japanese history. This title argues that both the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868) and the reformers of the Meiji era (1868-1912) recruited the classical map to serve the cause of administrative reform.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: K. Ren Wigen, Karen Wigen, Kären Wigen, Karen E. Wigen
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 23.04.2012
• EAN: 9780520272767
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27276-7
• Pagine: 340
• Serie: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies / Global T; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia - Local Studies/Global Themes (CAUP)
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards